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Look at Texas Jason. Amtrak operates a daily train, the Eagle, from San Antonio thru Dallas/Fort Worth all the way to Chicago. To get anywhere by train north and east this is the route. Amtrak also operates in Texas and east west route, the Sunset Limited, thrice a week. If anyone in Texas wants to make connections in San Antonio, one must waste a night there, because the Sunset Limited and Eagle don't make it there until the wee hours of the morning. At least they switch cars westbound, but eastbound they don't. <br /> <br />So if one wanted to get to Houston from Dallas one must wake up from their slumber in San Antonio and wait to board the eastbound train, at night, in the wee hours of the morning, without cover, and with the station closed, on the eastside of downtown, in the warehouse district.... It wouldn't be so bad if one could get inside the safe station.... <br /> <br />If Amtrak is running on time, a big if, one catches the train in Dallas around 2 pm, and should arrive in Houston around 10 am. twenty hours later. One can drive 20 mph and get to Houston in 12 hours. <br /> <br />This might be one the reasons why Amtrak does not fare well in Texas. Putting in a local running directly from Dallas and Houston won't be fast on the slow UP track, but one would think if they left Houston or Dallas in the morning they might reach their destination before night fell..... <br /> <br />And to think Texas is now the second largest state in population, with the sixth and ninth largest metropolitan areas of the country. Texas might as well be a different country as far as Amtrak is concerned. <br /> <br /> <br />
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